{"id":5585,"date":"2005-10-09T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2005-10-09T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T13:07:47","slug":"2-2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5585","title":{"rendered":"2 + 2 = 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesonline.com\/articles\/2005\/10\/08\/news\/porter_county\/439034c2906578768625709400007008.txt\">This gun\/school bus story<\/a> doesn&#8217;t add up, either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Porter County police, while concerned that a girl with a gun got on a school bus Wednesday afternoon, said they are relieved to find the weapon was just a BB pistol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Police said the incident occurred about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday. The girl, who recently left the Washington Township schools to become home schooled, got on a Washington Township bus at its first stop. Also getting on the bus was another former Washington Township student, a boy who now attends school in Kouts.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver didn&#8217;t know the pair no longer attended Washington Township, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The girl didn&#8217;t display the weapon or threaten anyone with it, and she and the Kouts student got off at the next stop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I drove a school bus for two years.  Unless the school day has changed dramatically since the olden days, you don&#8217;t pick kids up in the afternoon.  There&#8217;s no way they should have been allowed on the bus at the first stop.  Something&#8217;s fishy.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the schools and the police seem to have handled this properly (so far).  Let&#8217;s just hope that the worst that comes of this is that she&#8217;s told she&#8217;s not to get on any more school buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gun\/school bus story doesn&#8217;t add up, either. Porter County police, while concerned that a girl with a gun got on a school bus Wednesday afternoon, said they are relieved to find the weapon was just a BB pistol. &#8230;Police said the incident occurred about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday. The girl, who recently left the Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}